Re: Still Can't Install Sarge/Etch (no route)

[Jens Peter Secher <jps@debian.org>]

Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:23:13PM -0500, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
>> At 08:33 PM 3/6/2007, Kevin Mark wrote:
>> I've actually managed to track down this problem. Somehow, for some 
>> reason, the DHCP client Debian uses right now was telling my ISP's 
>> DHCP server to return completely fresh information and not the 
>> information my NIC was registered with. That made it refuse to let me 
>> work without logging in, which I couldn't do without a web browser.

[...]

> I'd report a bug against the installer and include the details about the
> dhcp client as the source of the problem and how it was solved by using
> a different dhcp problem. If you provide all the info, the maintainer
> will reassign the bug where he/she thinks it should be but since it
> happended while using the installer, I'd start with that.

The symptoms look a lot like the things I have experienced, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=395411
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